. The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material. jotures and innumerable small objects ofevery kind were uncovered, and the walls ofthe city with their elaborate outworks, moatsand defenses were traced. Many of themovable relics were deposited in the BritishMuseum. See Assyria. NING-PO, China, a city in the provinceof Che-kiang, one of the ports open to for-eign commerce. It is on the Ning-po River,about sixteen miles from the sea. It is sur-rounded by a wall twenty-five feet high, an
. The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material. jotures and innumerable small objects ofevery kind were uncovered, and the walls ofthe city with their elaborate outworks, moatsand defenses were traced. Many of themovable relics were deposited in the BritishMuseum. See Assyria. NING-PO, China, a city in the provinceof Che-kiang, one of the ports open to for-eign commerce. It is on the Ning-po River,about sixteen miles from the sea. It is sur-rounded by a wall twenty-five feet high, andits most remarkable edifice is the great Ning-po pagoda, now partly in ruins. The manu-factures consist chiefly of silk and cottongoods, carpets, furniture, gold and silverwares and confections. The principal exportsare tea, silk and raw cotton. The city is acenter of education, having several collegesand a great library. It is also a center ofmissionary effort. Population, estimated,470,000. NIOBE, nio he, in Greek mythology thedaughter of Tantalus, the wife of Amphion,king of Thebes. Proud of her twelve chil-dren, she boasted of them to Leto, who had. but two, Apollo and Artemis. Those deities,in anger and jealousy, put her children todeath. Their bodies lay unburied for ninedays and thenZeus changedthem to i o b e in h e rgrief, prayed tothe gods, who,in pity, changedher -into a rockimage, in she contin-ued to shed story ofNiobe has been afavorite subject inliterature and appears, withdivergencies in de- NIOBE tail, in Sophocles, Aeschylus and Ovid; it hasbeen represented on Greek vases, reliefs andin sculptured groups. NIPIGON, or NEPIGON, a lake of Can-ada, in Ontario, about thirty miles northwestof Lake Superior, with 813 feet gi-eateraltitude. Its greatest length is seventy miles,and its width, about forty miles. It hasrugged headlands, deep bays and manyislands. The Nipigon River connects it withLake Superior. The district is much f
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